Martin Glaessner

Martin Fritz Glaessner ( born December 25, 1906 in Ústí nad Labem, † 23 November 1989 in Melbourne) was an Australian geologist and paleontologist. He was an internationally recognized expert on Precambrian fossils.

Life

Glaessner came from the North Bohemia and studied from 1925 at the University of Vienna Law ( PhD 1929) and geology and paleontology (PhD 1931). In addition, he was already since 1923, scientists at the Natural History Museum in Vienna and in 1930/31 at the Natural History Museum in London. 1932 to 1934 he worked for the State Oil Institute in Moscow as a geologist and then at the Institute for mineral fuels of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also lectured at the Petroleum Institute and the Paleontological Institute of the Moscow State University. In 1936 he married in Moscow. In 1937 he went back to Vienna. Since he had Jewish ancestors on his father, he was in 1938 briefly arrested and then worked briefly for later BP in London and from 1938 to 1950 for oil exploration for companies (Joint Oil Exploration Companies ) in Port Moresby and Melbourne in Australia as chief paleontologist. From 1950 he was at the University of Adelaide, where until his death he remained the rest of his career, first as a Senior Lecturer, from 1953 as a Reader and from 1964 as a professor of geology and paleontology. Since 1972 he was a professor emeritus. From 1953 he was also connected with the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

In addition to his studies of Precambrian fossils (especially Ediacaran fauna) from the 1950s, he was already since the 1930s, known for study of microfossils (especially foraminifera ) and continued this work in Australia as a petroleum geologist and, for example, in the stratigraphy of Tertiary sediments in South Australia continued.

Honors

Glaessner received the Lyell Medal ( 1974), Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal, the (1982) and the Eduard- Suess Medal of the Austrian Geological Society. In 1957 he became a member of the Australian Academy of Science. 1962 to 1977 he was standing in front of the Australian National Committee for Geosciences. In 1985 he became a member of the Order of Australia for services, especially in the micro- palaeontology. 1950 to 1970 he was Honorary Research Associate of the American Museum of Natural History. In 1946 he was awarded a D.Sc. the University of Melbourne. In 1983 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society.

Writings

  • About a new Miocene crab and the Brachyurenfauna of the Vienna Basin. Negotiations the Geological Survey 1924, p.109 -118 online ( PDF, 604 kB)
  • New Emydenfunde from the Vienna Basin and the fossil Clemmys species of the Mediterranean area. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences Math and Science Class 135, 1925, p 51-71 online ( PDF, 1.9 MB)
  • New studies on the founder layers in Korneuburg. Negotiations the Geological Survey 1926, pp. 111-125 online ( PDF, 787 kB)
  • The Dekapodenfauna the Austrian Upper Tertiary. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Imperial Geological Institute 78, 1928, pp. 161-219 online ( PDF, 3.1 MB)
  • A new turtle from the Italian Miocene. Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 44, 1930, pp. 413-418 online ( PDF, 614 kB)
  • New teeth of apes from the Miocene of the Vienna Basin. Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 46, 1931, S 15-27 online ( PDF, 1.8 MB)
  • Geological studies in the outer cliff zone. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Imperial Geological Institute 81, 1931, pp. 1-23 online ( PDF, 1.0 MB)
  • Eye stone gravel in the area of ​​Semmeringkalks and the geological conditions of the Fund area. Negotiations the Geological Survey 1935, pp. 167-171 online ( PDF, 407 kB)
  • For knowledge of the Nama fossils West Africa. Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 66, 1963, pp. 113-120 online) (PDF; 3.2 MB)
  • Principles of Micropalaeontology, Melbourne University Press / Oxford University Press 1945 New York, Hafner, 1963
  • Parvancorina - to artheopod from the Late Precambrian ( Ediacarian ) of South Australia. Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 83, 1980, pp. 83-90 online ( PDF, 4.1 MB)
  • The Dawn of Animal Life - a biohistorical study, Cambridge University Press 1984
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